What Do You Know About Canine Skin Cancer?

Just because the weather's getting colder in many parts of the country, doesn't mean dog owners can be less concerned with skin cancer. Luckily many cases can be treated successfully when caught early enough so brush up on the facts about the various types of this disease in the quiz below.

What Do You Know About Canine Skin Cancer?

What's the most common kind of skin cancer that affects dogs?

Dogs with short coats and light skin are more prone to squamous cell carcinomas.

Exposure to the sun has been shown to cause a higher incidence of hemangioma and _________.

Which areas on all dogs are at the highest risk for skin cancers?

What is most often the first step for malignant melanomas?

Squamous cell carcinomas are tumors that are _____ with a wart-like appearance.

If your dog only has one small tumor that has not spread to other organs, it may be removed by this freezing technique.

In Jan. 2009 my dog was diagnosed with a mast cell tumor. it happened overnight and was the size of tennis ball. Unfortunately she had another tumor in July very small but grade III. She had to get surgery both times & in researching theories about mast cell tumors it says a dog with allergy problems could be at greater risk which my dog has always had since she was about a year old.
Good advice is examining your dog once a week or everyday if you have time(especially if your dog is older) for any weird lumps or skin problems.